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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Queen Consort.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following adjectives best described Antoinette when she was in the room with a foreign ambassador?
(a) Kind.
(b) Confused.
(c) Comical.
(d) Dignified.

2. What number in the birth order was Marie Antoinette?
(a) Nineteenth.
(b) Fifteenth.
(c) Sixteenth.
(d) Eleventh.

3. How many children did Isabella of Parma produce before her death?
(a) Six.
(b) None.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

4. To which of the following objects did Marie Teresa compare her children?
(a) Pawns on a chessboard.
(b) Stars in the sky.
(c) Pieces of a puzzle.
(d) Flowers in bloom.

5. Which of the following personality traits was NOT one Antoinette was taught to exude at all times by her mother?
(a) Grace.
(b) Pride.
(c) Obedience.
(d) Docility.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country was Louis XVI from?

2. To whom did Antoinette's father cling to before he unexpectedly died, almost as if he had a presentiment of his death?

3. How old was Marie Antoinette when there were the first signs of political upheaval in Europe?

4. Why was Antoinette secretly glad that her first born child was a girl?

5. What was Marie Antoinette's father's name?

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